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There's a disease that's killed more than 60 inmates over the past seven years: Valley Fever.

Valley Fever is a fungal infection that's been cropping up at two prisons in Central California. On Monday, the federal official in charge of medical care in state prisons prisons ordered thousands of high-risk inmates out of these facilities because of the airborne disease.

For more on this we're joined now by Don Specter, head of the Prison Law Office, a non-profit public interest law firm.

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